Tried turning down the Presence and Deep... WOW

[Joeytpg]

first of all, I got my VH4 repaired by an excellent tech/engineer here (thank god). Apparently there was a cable hitting one of the connectors in the tube socket inside.

it's back to sounding AWESOME. New power and pre tubes too so it's rocking!

But something awesome happened tonight....I was playing my VH4 and I just decided to try weird settings..... and I turned down the deep to 0 and the presence all the way down to 10:00........ my god the amp sounds INCREDIBLE (at least for my type of music) but the overbearing bass (which I'm sure comes handy when you can crank it up to stage volume) was too much inside my studio... and the presence made the amp sound a bit harsh with my strats (which is what I play 90% of the time)

INCREDIBLE....

 

[Bato]

Yeah! With these two knobs you can make it sound like a hot rodded marshall. This is pretty cool!

 

[FourT6and2]

IMO guitar should not encroach on what other instruments are doing in the mix. That means leave the bass to the bass player. And leave the harsh treble to the cymbals. The guitar is a mid-range instrument. I find that many guitarists crank the bass way too much. If you turn down the bass and gain a bit, you'll be amazed at how much better some amps sound.

 

[stringsibanez]

I absolutely agree..

I have often felt as if too many guitar players decide what "good tone" is by listening to their favorite albums, and then trying to make their single guitar/amp/cab setup in their bedroom.. sound the same as their favorite band's recording of rhythm-guitar + doubled-rhythm-guitar + bass-guitar as heard in a well-done, major-label funded mix. (Over-boosted lows, boosted highs to compensate for muddiness, not enough mids). The problem being that all of the low-end that seems to have been falsely attributed to "heavy-guitars" is in fact: the Bass-Guitar!

The funny part is that as a recording/mixing-engineer, I can absolutely guarantee that 100% of all half-way decent recordings/mixes of anything rock-music or heavier have eq'd pretty well all the "lows" out of the guitars by the final mix. I promise anyone who disagrees that if they were to take the multi-track recording session of their favorite high-gain song and solo out the guitars, they would probably think that the tone sounded like it was coming from an old A.M. radio speaker compared to what they expected.

 

[FourT6and2]

lol absolutely.

Me? I go for as much mids as I can. Les Paul, mid-heavy pickups, cranked mids on amp, Greenbacks or G1265's. Turn the bass down a bit, not too much gain. And voila... a mean, snarly, pissed-off guitar tone that can do heavy high-gain or clean up. But that's just my preference of course.

OP, another trick with the Diezels is to turn down your treble and crank your presence. You'll get a big boost in mids. This happens with the Bogner Uberschall, too.